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W. 'H. THOMSON.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

FENCE POST.

(No Model.)

No. 454,506. Patented June 23, 1891.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. H. THOMSON. FENGB POST.

Patented June 23,1891.

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\VILLIAM H. THOMSON, OF HEW YORK, N. Y.

FENCE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters -POST.

Patent No. 454,506, dated June 23, 1891.

Application filed January 19, 1891. Serial No. 378,202. (No model.)

- To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. THOMSON, a citizen. of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to fence-posts, and especially to such as are supported and held in position by means of cross-pins which project into the ground.

The object of said invention is provide a fence-post which can be easily constructed and at a reasonable cost, and which will be durable and firm in position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 show opposite elevations of my improved post, and Figs. 7 and S are opposite elevations of a modified construction thereof. The parts combined in Fi 1 and 2 are shown separately in Figs. 3, a, 5, and G. The parts which enterinto the modified construction appear in Figs. 9, 10, and 11.

The improved post, Figs. 1 and 2, is constructed as follows: The body of the post is a piece of T-metal of the necessary length. Then a notch. or is made at that part of the post-face a which is intended to be level with. or just beneath the surface of the ground when the post is in position. The apertures (Z cfhave also been made in the post-face a, the aperture d being level with the notch m. The metallic piece 0 (fully shown in Figs. 3 and a) is then securely fastened to the post-face a by rivets or screws inserted in the apertures d e f. Then the post-body, with the piece c at tached thereto, as above described, is set in the post-hole until the notch m is level with or slightly below the surface of the ground. The cross-pin. g, Fig. 6, is then insertedin the opening j, Fig. 4, and is driven downward until the head tof the pin gengages by the flange r with the post-face a and rests in the notch on, while also bearing on the web I) of the T metal, as shown in Fig. 2. The cross-pin 72, Fig. 5, is then inserted in the aperture 76, Fig. 3, and is driven down until said crosspin by its head q engages with the cross-pin g and rests in the notch .9. Then in a hole it made in the cross pin 71 Fig. 1, a pin is inserted which bears firmly against the metallic piece 0 and prevents any displacement or upward movement of the two cross-pins g and 71.

In the modified construction of my improved post, Figs. 7 and 8, the cross pius are inserted in a holder, which is formed by a metallic band which passes around the post-body so as to form the two openings x and y at substantially right angles to each other. The metallic band or holder starts from a notch or aperture at o in the post-face a, and is then carried downward at an angle of forty-five de grees across the post-face a to a corresponding notch or aperture at 5, thus forming the opening a: for the cross-pin g, Fig. 9. From a the metallic band or holder is carried downward around the post-web b at right angles to the plane of the opening w, thence upward across the post-face a to the point 5, Figs. 7 and 9, thereby forming the opening y for the cross-pin h. The said metallic band having been thus firmly attached to the post-body the latter is then set in position in the post-hole until the notch or is level with or slightly below the surface of the ground. The cross-pin g is then driven down through the opening xtill its head rests in the notch or and the flange engages with the face a and bears 011 the post-web I). Then the cross-pin 7b is inserted in the opening y, (and outside of the cross-pin g,) and is driven downward until the head q rests in the notch s of the crosspin 9. Then a pin is inserted, Fig. 7, in a hole in. the cross-pin h, and thereby any tendency of the cross-pins to move upward is obviated.

I have heretofore obtained Letters Patent of the United States, No. 426,7i5, dated April 29, 1890, for an improvement in fence-posts.

The invention described in the within specification is intended as an improvement upon the fence-post described and claimed in said Letters Patent.

iVhat I herein claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. An improved fence-post consisting of a post-body of T metal notched to receive the cross-pin g and having the apertures l e f,

through which the metallic holder 0 is at 2, which forms the openings 9: and y to retached to said post-body, the said-holder hzwceive the engaging cross-pins g and h, subing apertures j and 70 to receive the engaging stantizilly as described.

cross-pins g and-71,substantiallyasdescribed. XVILLIAM H. THOMSON.

2. An improved fence-post consisting of a itnesses: post-body of T metal notched to receive the R. XV. G. TELLING,

cross-pin g, and having the metallic band Q) KATE S. THOMSON. 

